Way In Way Out Songtext / Lyric

One man's trash is another man's treasure

But most men treasure what other men have

Little is thrown away to the many that will never

Grasp what the few view as pennies in the grass

And underneath the grass are the roots of inequality

Creating all the bumps we come across in the path

And I don't have a green thumb and neither do my niggas

And having a money tree is a luxury of class

The only ho I know had a flattering ass

And when I asked could she dig it, she looked at me and laughed

See we crabs in a barrel and the barrel was glass

So we broke, crack was the answer to cash

But the question was never asked: how we get off the path?

Steady walking in a maze that was built in the last

Century,

eventually we'll raise our hands

But the teacher is a part of the scam, God damn

Got me looking for a way out, way out, way out

Running down a fire escape to get away

Got me looking for a way in, way in, way in

Got me peeping through your doors and your windows

I'm a product of the environment that I was brought up in

Material things I'm caught up in

Hustling, a product that creates the production

A plus then, for shackles that resemble circumference

My world, my word, I'm running from my block

Right into your wall, street

That when I see up close is just a prop

Designed to keep me cropped

Outside of the picture that pictures my people in defeat

I'm cooking up the books like a communist bonfire

And tell Uncle Sam I forgot the receipt

He gon' call me a liar and I'mma call him a thief

The jury looking like him and enjoying looking at me

At my arraignment, screaming

All us blacks got is sports and entertainment, and a belief in

Religion as the answer to the grieving

Believing that the blessed get test and the less get even

Running away from trouble got me running into you

Running away from darkness got me running into view

Running towards all the lights

Running from blue and whites

Running for you by day hope I run into you by night

Running for an election to run the country for who

Run and tell all the news that you run it for something true

Run it into the ground, run it into a tomb

Run until there is nothing, run it until we lose